How Data From Wearable Tech Can Be Used Against You In A Court Of Law

[DamianTV]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexan...b_7698764.html

When wearable computers can disprove what someone told police, you know you're living in a future that has arrived sooner than expected.

According to LancasterOnline, a woman in Pennsylvania has been charged with knowingly filing a false report after forensic evidence and the data from her Fitbit undermined her claim of rape.

The court affidavit obtained by LancasterOnline indicated that data from her wearable fitness tracker showed that the woman in question, Jeannine Risley, was awake and active the entire night, including at the time she told police officers she was sleeping.

This wasn't the the first time that Fitbit data has been used in a court room. Last November, Parmy Olson reported how a Fitbit was used in a personal injury claim by a personal trainer in Calgary, Canada. In that case, data from the activity tracker was analyzed to establish a baseline reference for her level of fitness to compare it to someone of her age and profession.

In the case in Pennsylvania, however, Fitbut data was directly used to contradict a claim. As Kashmir Hill observed at Fusion, "it's likely we'll see more Fitbits being trotted out in court in the future, as the wearable trend takes hold, and self-tracking leads to self-incrimination."

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I'll say it again until someone else says it.

"Without Privacy, everything you do regardless if you consider it to be Right or Wrong, is subject to someone elses approval.

[acptulsa]

In this case, the woman has no reasonable expectation of privacy, even from a libertarian perspective. She is trying to convince her community to persecute someone she's mad at by false accusing him of a crime. There's nothing private about that.

It is, however, a lesson in how these technologies will be used against us as well. Cases like this, where accessing that information is unquestionably a legitimate thing to do, are the cases that set the precedents, and those precedents are almost invariably abused later.

[timosman]

This is surprising ?

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Real story should be woman sentenced to death, for attempting to destroy a man's life thanks to fitbit, but it's not, she probably won't even lose her job, and can do it again without consequence.